Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: suite
IPA transcription: [sw'it]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: suite
    Meaning: a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected
  • Synonyms: suite, rooms
    Meaning: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
  • Synonyms: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage
    Meaning: the group following and attending to some important person
Usage examples
  • There were seven--an imperial suite.
  • Behind Kutuzov was Bennigsen and the suite.
  • "His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and suite, Sir Percy Blakeney, Lady Blakeney."
  • She'll engage a room for you next to her own suite, or as near as possible; then you'll be provided with a chaperon."
  • They were questioning Darcy in the living-room of Mrs. Darcy's suite, the clerks being detained downstairs by Mulligan.
  • I was assigned a small room on the fourth floor of the hotel (for you must know that I belonged to the General's suite).
  • It ceased to be a mere grouping of dances, the name suite being applied to that, and struck out into independent excursions in the domain of fancy.
  • She remembered there was a comfortable vacant room just opposite the suite of the Six Snubnosed Princesses, so she stole softly up to it and tried the door.
  • To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a tall and narrow Gothic window looked out upon a closed corridor which pursued the windings of the suite.
  • A widower of long standing, without children or near relatives, he occupied a suite of well-appointed rooms over the hardware store and took his meals at the hotel.